15 July 2015
1st Thesis draft
For my first thesis draft I divided the thesis in 4 chapter and assigned an estimated number of words for each one of those.
1st Chapter – Emergency of climate change
2nd Chapter – Design for sustainability
3rd Chapter – How to influence people? Challenges or games?
4th Chapter – The end justify the means
Introduction
How can we incentivise…
7 July 2015
Against gamification
Just when I started to be more convinced about the effectiveness and potentials of gamification, I read the text of John Ferrara Games for Persuasion: Argumentation, Procedurality, and the Lie of Gamification, where he express his opinion against gamification, describing it as a deprivation of games. Although, in the beginning I was a bit adverse to his theory, as simply…
5 July 2015
Deterding – defining gamification
After an introduction to gamification and having read many of the definitions, I started analysing this concept more critically and in depth and to do so I found a series of research papers on the e-library portal of the UAL (I’ve been honestly pleasantly surprise by the amount of papers available there). One of the most influential and interesting researcher…
1 July 2015
About the ethic
Undoubtedly, I believe that the process of gamification is a deception, it’s about pushing people to do something without letting them think what they are actually doing. If people will start to have responsible behaviours because of gamification doesn’t mean they became more responsible. But at the same time, people are mislead by years of marketing techniques, dictated by capitalist…
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